"Michael Silverman, a 21-year-old Northeastern University student who grew up in Needham, had not thought about Israel much before this spring. An electrical engineering major, he was not interested in the political situation there, and he had not regularly attended synagogue through most of his adolescence.
When he got the chance to travel there for free, he signed up; it sounded like fun.
But he never anticipated that the trip would transform him into someone who cares deeply about Israel and whose religious practice now includes daily prayer.
'Before the trip, I didn’t feel anything; I just knew this was a place where Jewish people lived,' he said. 'Since going there, I feel connected to the people that live there. It felt like family.'"
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